Top 1200 Self-Preservation Quotes & Sayings

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish I would have known that you don't have to sacrifice everything for a cause. And that self-care and self-preservation is also a tool that is necessary to do the work.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.

The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

Growing Greener doesnt produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are you right now?

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become this giant blob bureaucracy, the primary objective is self-preservation, and the definition of self-preservation is don't do anything because then you continue to illustrate where you're needed.

Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy. Science will tell you that you can explode a person, but their energy still exists - even if they're decimated, the universe will preserve that in the form of heat or whatever it is. So there's a preservation of our molecules or whatever, but is there a preservation of a thing that's called the self if that thing is not actually ever one thing?

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

Common sense! It's nothing more than common sense for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our country, the preservation and growth of our economy. And yet Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush - and everybody in the press corps and practically every other Democrat - hears this and the only reaction they have is, "No compassion! No compassion for the less fortunate! No compassion for the victims of the world!"

Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.

I do watch sports. How could I not? Just for self-preservation.

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.